Monday, 8:29 am I felt small, gentle hands run up and down my bare chest as consciousness started to seep into my mind. Eyes still closed, I simply stretched and enjoyed the soft caresses, wanting to prolong this lovely moment between the waking world and dreams where every touch felt magnified ten-fold. The fingers making small circles on my chest were accompanied by the feeling of soft lips enveloping mine in a sweet ki...

Friday, 4:07 pm Four hours later, I had a new bodyguard, and her name wasn’t John. I wasn’t convinced that choosing her over one of the Johns was the right call, but she seemed more than capable, and I felt more of a connection with her than I had the others; that had to count for something. Granted, that connection was probably my attraction to her, but I was still hiring someone qualified. As soon as she accepted my off...

Friday 8:43 am A departure from the usual, it was the smells that woke me up this time. Savory bacon mixed with the sweet, earthy scent of maple syrup and the strong aroma of coffee was a more pleasant way to wake up than having your phone scream at you. “What the hell smells so good?” I mumbled, blinking the sleep out of my eyes as I looked around the room. Light spilled in from behind me, rays bouncing off the hardwood...

Thursday, 8:51 pm The SUV drove away, leaving Emily and me in front of the doors of the building I now lived in - what I’d learned was called the Liberty Elite. It was occupied by a diverse collection of residential and commercial tenants. The first floor was a prime spot for high-end shopping and dining. Several stories above that were reserved for parking. More commercial space and some government offices took up the ne...

Thursday, 7:28 pm I looked around my tiny apartment and suddenly found it very hard to swallow. I hadn’t spent a lot of time in this place since I’d signed the paperwork at YPV and bought Marduke, but despite that, it felt like I was severing the last remaining tie to my life before I found out about my grandfather. While I hadn’t been capable of buying a G6, I wasn’t broke either, and I was relatively happy. Things were...

My head was still turned to watch Danielle as she delivered kisses along my shoulder, so I wasn’t tracking what Erin was doing. A chill rolled through my body as I felt another pair of lips press themselves to my neck. Erin started leaving a trail of moist kisses along the other side of my neck while Danielle worked her lips across my shoulder and up the back of my neck. I didn’t move, afraid of moving my head and breakin...

Thursday, 8:50 am “It’s been over twenty-four hours since the story broke about the death of famous billionaire Colin Gerard and still we have no details on the whereabouts of his grandson Marcus Upton.” The blonde woman from Channel Seven was back at it again this morning. As I lay on the couch waiting for a text from Erin to let me know she was downstairs, I watched the updated coverage of my grandfather’s death. It was...

Wednesday, 4:41 pm When I wasn’t busy checking the news every thirty minutes, I spent the rest of my workday doing damage control. I had a growing number of unreturned texts and missed calls that needed to be addressed. While looking over my grandfather’s collection of assets or counting money like a rich duck sounded appealing, if I wanted to keep the relationships I’d built, I needed to start whittling down the number o...

Wednesday, 8:05 am Buried in my bed sheets, my phone woke me with its incessant buzzing. I blindly reached for it without success and cursed as I reluctantly opened my eyes and began sorting through my blankets, looking for the damn thing. During the process, my phone stopped, which made it harder to find. The entire time, I had to remind myself where I was and what had happened over the last five days. Inheriting billion...

Tuesday, 9:09 pm “What a fucking day,” I said as I walked through the lobby of Solomon’s Palace. I meant it too - I’d woken up to a fantastic blowjob from Bobbi and made a Faustian bargain with her, though in this instance, I felt more like Mephisto to Bobbi’s Faust. After that, I’d reserved the room for another week, displacing some honeymooning couple over the weekend, but I made sure they were taken care of on my dime,...

Tuesday, 4:35 pm After finishing the paperwork at The Blue Beans and ordering a coffee for Natalie, I returned to the office. The rest of the coffee date with Ashlee went without a hitch, which surprised me, considering how poorly things went for her at the start of the meeting. She filled me in a little on her history. She was twenty and attending her third year of college at Columbia, studying business administration wi...

Tuesday 2:25 pm Something yanked me out of one of the best sleeps I’d experienced in a long time. Disoriented, I looked around the room and started taking stock of my situation - four walls, a desk, two chairs pushed into the corner… I was in an office, and I was alone. A sound went off and I immediately identified it as what woke me up. Trying to remember what had happened to me and what had interrupted such a good sleep...

A few minutes after Naomi left, the door opened and the final candidate walked in. My first impression was she was very different from the other two in almost every way. Bella and Naomi had dark hair, were curvy, and had an innate sensuality about them that would have immediately turned the heads of every straight male within sight and inspired every filthy fantasy imaginable. They’d both been relatively tall with fair co...

I sat at my desk and quickly flipped through all three resumes while waiting for the first candidate to come in. I know I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but it was strange to me that I was interviewing for a personal assistant when I’d just been one of the many drones on the analytics floor of Marduke just a few days ago. I wondered if Gerald had any idea what was going on, or that I’d even bought the...

Tuesday, 8:00 am My alarm pulled me directly out of a REM cycle with the noisy jingle of some factory-made generic tune, and I was in no mood to put up with its bullshit. Fingers blindly searched the side table beside the bed to find my phone; once they’d located it, I swiped at the area on the screen that would turn off the alarm completely. I was in a strange bedroom. My eyes were still closed, but there were other sign...